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paid contractors paid by the pentagon still occupying afghanistan. the one change we have seen this year has been the withdrawal of the troops from iraq. that was the centerpiece from where u.s. troops were fighting around the world. now, we're looking at afghanistan as the biggest war zone that is acknowledged. the interesting thing that makes it difficult for people like you and i who want to look at where the u.s. troops are, the lists that we see are a very hard to actually get good information. i was looking yesterday at a few different lists on the pentagon's web sites. one of them is a list of personnel where are u.s. shoulders are. there are about 195,000 u.s. soldiers and marines that are based around the world. we hear in general they are in about 150 countries. when you look at the list, there is only about 40 countries listed. why is that? we are only listing the countries where there is more than 100 troops permanently based there. that is kind of weird because that means is only about 1/4 of the country -- about 1/5 of the countries whe
paid contractors paid by the pentagon still occupying afghanistan. the one change we have seen this year has been the withdrawal of the troops from iraq. that was the centerpiece from where u.s. troops were fighting around the world. now, we're looking at afghanistan as the biggest war zone that is acknowledged. the interesting thing that makes it difficult for people like you and i who want to look at where the u.s. troops are, the lists that we see are a very hard to actually get good...
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that is for th pentagon and domestic spepending. that means less money for contractors. >> robert rubin wrote this s week he thinks t they will beorced to do somhing fairly dramatic in the e lame-duck seson. he says they should -- rather than bicker over how much to spend on lower income americans -- that wewe really neeeed topend on education research investment. that iss not going to happen in this campaign yeyear. >> it is easy to say we should spend here and here. ththe problem is there is nmoney left. we are bumping up against the debt ceiling again. john boehner is ting to skirt that fight now. they're not sure when we will hit the debt limit but we're $50 trillion in debt with $1 trillion deficits every year. the party is over. there is going to be some reckoning. will throw one curve ball at you. if the supreme court sikes down parts of the health care law but not all of it, we could see a rise in the baseline. we could see some easing of the budget tension. some of the benefits that it cut out, there is a big cost associate
that is for th pentagon and domestic spepending. that means less money for contractors. >> robert rubin wrote this s week he thinks t they will beorced to do somhing fairly dramatic in the e lame-duck seson. he says they should -- rather than bicker over how much to spend on lower income americans -- that wewe really neeeed topend on education research investment. that iss not going to happen in this campaign yeyear. >> it is easy to say we should spend here and here. ththe problem...
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from the pentagon? >> greta: how much? >> $300 billion off the base budget. >> greta: how did that compare to the president? >> he cut its deeper. we think he goes deeper to the point where he will hollow out the military, $500 billion. >> greta: is this different from the automatic cuts? >> yes. this is separate. >> greta: okay. >> so what he what we say, the president says ignores or raises taxes. we say, let's pre-e. this other spending cuts, instead of sharp, disruptive cuts. we are moving spending cuts across all government agencies and citing the waste and the abuse with the gao and getting power back to the states, getting welfare reform to get the programs wired to get people on to lives of self-sufficiency. so we think a lot needs to be done to get us back to growth and repair the safety net and reform medicare and medicaid so they are sustainable. all of those things means we have to stop spending money we don't have. we have to get spending under control. we propose that this cuts $5.3 trillion in spending over
from the pentagon? >> greta: how much? >> $300 billion off the base budget. >> greta: how did that compare to the president? >> he cut its deeper. we think he goes deeper to the point where he will hollow out the military, $500 billion. >> greta: is this different from the automatic cuts? >> yes. this is separate. >> greta: okay. >> so what he what we say, the president says ignores or raises taxes. we say, let's pre-e. this other spending cuts,...
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you cannot walk for long at the pentagon and not bump into somebody from that organization. in a particular, jim miller it was now a successor for michelle and the position -- in the position of policy undersecretary. he, too, is someone i depend on every day to try to deal with everything from tremendous number of crises that we confront to the long term strategic challenges that we all flow how to discuss. i am particularly pleased with his leadership, which really follows in the footsteps of michelle, and his acumen and wisdom and all the qualities that i deeply appreciate. i spend a lot of time in washington, and you meet a lot of people, but it is the people who have a conscious and work hard at their jobs that are the most-respected people that you can work with. as we enter the second term for president obama, jim and so many others alumni will continue to play a very critical role in helping guide the administration's defense and foreign policy. with the election behind us, washington is turning its attention to the unfinished business, particularly the unfinished bu
you cannot walk for long at the pentagon and not bump into somebody from that organization. in a particular, jim miller it was now a successor for michelle and the position -- in the position of policy undersecretary. he, too, is someone i depend on every day to try to deal with everything from tremendous number of crises that we confront to the long term strategic challenges that we all flow how to discuss. i am particularly pleased with his leadership, which really follows in the footsteps of...
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i have scoured nothing has happened, and oracle records and so far it just has been from the pentagon. i hate to see this. they have worked so hard. but there is the ability to break it as well. >> it always makes sense to me. thank you for coming on tonight. gerr millions of people now playing video games on their smartphones. some find it a great way to pass the time. for every time you take the phone out of your pocket, the higher the risk of it is that it will be lost or stolen. it all depends on where you live. on tonight's top five, the cities with the highest rate of smartphones that. at number five, newark, new jersey. number four is long beach california and oakland california is next. and number two is seattle. a lot of smart forms there. and the number one hotspot for smartphone that is philadelphia. that is a shocker. across the country about 30 million phones stolen, lost or stolen and the most likely place is a fast food restaurant or grocery store. coming up next, the market has taken quite a hit over the last few ys. [ heart beating, monitor beeping ] woman: what do yo
i have scoured nothing has happened, and oracle records and so far it just has been from the pentagon. i hate to see this. they have worked so hard. but there is the ability to break it as well. >> it always makes sense to me. thank you for coming on tonight. gerr millions of people now playing video games on their smartphones. some find it a great way to pass the time. for every time you take the phone out of your pocket, the higher the risk of it is that it will be lost or stolen. it...
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so when i see general -- we worked in the pentagon. i was the scientific adviser to the chief of operations. i'm highly sensitized to who says what. so when i see general james cartwright in front of the senate saying that if he -- he was actually asked by -- i forget the senator now. it was actually asked by a member of the committee, if there was a crisis between the united states and north korea, what advice would he give the president of the united states about with regard to the ground base missile defense system. and he said, oh, i would tell the president that he could have complete confidence in the system. you could see the eyebrows raised in the senate among senators. now, this guy is the second most senior member of our military. i worry -- i worked on nuclear war plants and i really worked on them. i was at the ground zero level. i really had a lot of access when i was in the pentagon and i was helping to integrate training one into the force when it was just coming in there. so i know what goes on in these plants. and it s
so when i see general -- we worked in the pentagon. i was the scientific adviser to the chief of operations. i'm highly sensitized to who says what. so when i see general james cartwright in front of the senate saying that if he -- he was actually asked by -- i forget the senator now. it was actually asked by a member of the committee, if there was a crisis between the united states and north korea, what advice would he give the president of the united states about with regard to the ground...
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the fact that you're appealing to different organizations playing the role, i have been in the pentagon. i have watched the charades go on. you select what you want to say and you say it. now, if you have some facts with -- are you willing to say, for example, that the current missile defense system is defending the united states right now? do you believe that? >> that's a different point. >> no, no. what do you mean? >> the first point -- >> no, we have to let -- >> we can't get into the exchange. >> well, not a specific exchange. talk -- >> i'm responding to a couple of the points you've made. >> respond to the factual point. >> i'm responding in the way i'd like to respond, not the way you'd like to respond. >> okay. fine. >> so that's the first point. it's factually incorrect. second point, was the motivation of the administration solely to appease the republicans? nothing could be further from the truth. when the report was released, it was denounced by senior republican senators. intimately familiar with the missile defense as a sellout to the russians. that we were appeasing the
the fact that you're appealing to different organizations playing the role, i have been in the pentagon. i have watched the charades go on. you select what you want to say and you say it. now, if you have some facts with -- are you willing to say, for example, that the current missile defense system is defending the united states right now? do you believe that? >> that's a different point. >> no, no. what do you mean? >> the first point -- >> no, we have to let --...
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a six month study done by the pentagon and the other agencies on how he could further cut the nuclear weapons if we do not need a cold war forced anymore we do not need russia doesn't need fifteen hundred weapons ready to go with a moment's notice obama's going to be able to make decisions in the next couple of months they could determine the course of the nuclear future of both countries russia and the united states going to give us a few more details he could decide that he no longer needs to hold thousands of targets at risk right now of a nuclear war plan requires that the military keep a thousand weapons ready to fire and twenty minutes notice why what military mission possible requires that just by eliminating that requirement he could reduce the number of nuclear weapons we do so the cost of the program right now the united states is starting to build the next generation of nuclear weapons new submarines new bombers new missiles why are we going to keep this force going on indefinitely for the next several decades the president doesn't want to do that but he's got to change the
a six month study done by the pentagon and the other agencies on how he could further cut the nuclear weapons if we do not need a cold war forced anymore we do not need russia doesn't need fifteen hundred weapons ready to go with a moment's notice obama's going to be able to make decisions in the next couple of months they could determine the course of the nuclear future of both countries russia and the united states going to give us a few more details he could decide that he no longer needs to...
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defense secretary panetta at the pentagon earlier today. >> mr. secretary, on afghanistan, what significance do you see in the statement by president karzai that u.s. and afghan officials are now -- or have very recently held peace talks with the taliban in a three-way setting? is this an indication that the process of pursuing a political settlement is now finally advancing? >> it's always been important for us to make clear that reconciliation has to be afghan-led. and what president karzai's statement confirmed is that afghanistan is now very much involved in the process of reconciliation. and that's extremely helpful and important to determining whether or not we are ultimately going to be able to succeed with reconciliation or not. >> three-way talks planned, do you know? >> i don't know. i'm not directly involved with rarts regards to that effort. but the in us that afghan has joined those reconciliation discussions is important. >> may i -- just one sentence. these talks will be better the less we talk on them. >> james clapper testified to
defense secretary panetta at the pentagon earlier today. >> mr. secretary, on afghanistan, what significance do you see in the statement by president karzai that u.s. and afghan officials are now -- or have very recently held peace talks with the taliban in a three-way setting? is this an indication that the process of pursuing a political settlement is now finally advancing? >> it's always been important for us to make clear that reconciliation has to be afghan-led. and what...
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news from the pentagon today that the u.s. will provide an additional $70 million to support israel's short range missile defense system, that announcement from leon panetta issuing a statement saying that he was directed by the president to fill israel's request for the cash needed to run what is known as the iron dome system. the u.s. already has provided israel with more than $200 million for this system in addition to the roughly $3 billion given to israel annually for security assistance and the defense department plans to request additional funding for the iron dome over the next three years and an exact figure on the additional assistance has not been given and it was one of the question that is came up earlier with spokesperson george little. >> spencer. >> is the department looking for any applications that iron dome might have to the united states for either protecting or site installations, perhaps navy ships, et cetera? >> the focus of iron dome is the course on israel and at this stage and if there are application
news from the pentagon today that the u.s. will provide an additional $70 million to support israel's short range missile defense system, that announcement from leon panetta issuing a statement saying that he was directed by the president to fill israel's request for the cash needed to run what is known as the iron dome system. the u.s. already has provided israel with more than $200 million for this system in addition to the roughly $3 billion given to israel annually for security assistance...
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. >> reporter: the pentagon is investigating general john allen, the top u.s. commander in afghanistan, in connection with the scandal that took down cia director david petraeus. >> general allen is entitled to due process in this matter. >> reporter: the fbi gave the pentagon more than 20,000 pages of e-mail communications between general allen and sociality jill kelley. kelley went to the fbi with the anonymous threatening e-mails. agents traced those to paula broadwell and uncovered her affair with petraeus. one defense official described the e-mails between general allen and kelley as flirtatious. another official tells cbs news, some of the e-mails were more than sexy exchanges and may have crossed the line. general allen said he did nothing wrong but for now the capitol hill hearings on his promotion are delayed. >> at request of the secretary of defense, the president has put on hold the promotion. >> general allen and petraeus wrote letters for a custody battle for her sister and more is wanted on the attack in benghazi, libya. >> i think it is imperati
. >> reporter: the pentagon is investigating general john allen, the top u.s. commander in afghanistan, in connection with the scandal that took down cia director david petraeus. >> general allen is entitled to due process in this matter. >> reporter: the fbi gave the pentagon more than 20,000 pages of e-mail communications between general allen and sociality jill kelley. kelley went to the fbi with the anonymous threatening e-mails. agents traced those to paula broadwell and...
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nixon held in the context of the pentagon papers leak. it was held at 3:30 p.m. on the 17th of june, 1971. mr. nixon both opened and closed the meeting. he opened by saying that a number of u.s. presidents, if you wanted to get something into the new york sometimes, the thing that you needed to do was to declare it top secret. he went through a whole litany of things that should be done by the government along the lines of what i've been talking about. he closed the meeting by saying -- and i quote, the president said that we have to win and a conviction of the public relations dispute. you know, it was richard nixon, not the material itself, that made the pentagon papers of the american political document. it was the administration's response to change but more simply a historical report into something that became an important artifact in american political history, something which led mr. nixon in a direction which ultimately destroyed his presidency and these are the kinds of issues that historians have to deal with and i submit to you there's no way that they
nixon held in the context of the pentagon papers leak. it was held at 3:30 p.m. on the 17th of june, 1971. mr. nixon both opened and closed the meeting. he opened by saying that a number of u.s. presidents, if you wanted to get something into the new york sometimes, the thing that you needed to do was to declare it top secret. he went through a whole litany of things that should be done by the government along the lines of what i've been talking about. he closed the meeting by saying -- and i...
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i think that's the likeliest area of actual conflict. >> the pentagon will often say and right now the u.s. spends something like 4, 5, 6 times what china spends on its defense spending. and the big question then becomes what is china's intention? (instrumental music) >> in a national call to arms defense secretary leon panetta warned the threat of a significant cyber attack against america is already here. >> the collective result of these kinds of attacks could be a cyber pearl harbor. >> what are the threats american's face in this century? with the attacks of september 11th, the u.s. has had to completely rethink how it defends its citizens. the enemy no longer a national armies but rather determined individuals. >> there are not going to be a lot of countries that are gonna be stupid enough to put tank armies out in the desert against us anymore to allow us to annihilate them. what the lessons of history of the last twenty years or so certainly teach us is that if you're fight us, you can have greater success by using terrorist tactics, by employing suicide bombers, i.e.d.'s, thos
i think that's the likeliest area of actual conflict. >> the pentagon will often say and right now the u.s. spends something like 4, 5, 6 times what china spends on its defense spending. and the big question then becomes what is china's intention? (instrumental music) >> in a national call to arms defense secretary leon panetta warned the threat of a significant cyber attack against america is already here. >> the collective result of these kinds of attacks could be a cyber...
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"the pentagon was still reviewing the e-mail and declined to comment on the relationship." host: also next to that story is a story from "the boston globe." "kerry considered as possible defense chief." "the president is considering asking john kerry to join the national security team." host: so, that is the latest on that. also this morning, "nancy pelosi considers leaving post as house democratic leader." "the decision could come as early as tomorrow, wednesday." washington journal will be live from capitol hill tomorrow with several lawmakers from 7:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. to keep you updated on what is happening this week in washington. the looming fiscal cliff, that is what we are talking about with all of you today. how do we avoid it, should entitlement spending be part of the package? james, go head. caller: i had to retire because of back problems or whenever, but i do not get disability, i would not apply for it, it is an entitlement. it is ludicrous to ask people in my age bracket, people who pay for their medicare -- that is what people are not saying. we paid
"the pentagon was still reviewing the e-mail and declined to comment on the relationship." host: also next to that story is a story from "the boston globe." "kerry considered as possible defense chief." "the president is considering asking john kerry to join the national security team." host: so, that is the latest on that. also this morning, "nancy pelosi considers leaving post as house democratic leader." "the decision could come as early...
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leave the pentagon and go to the industry. who is he and how class are you to the way he does things? >> guest: works for the cementer of defense of information, a columnist for us, a panelist at the mill blogging conference we sponsor. he's been a guest on my podcast many times, and so, i mean, i don't quarrel with the point of view. before i took the job at military.com, i was a civil servant at the naval air systems command at the v-# -- v22 program. as a fleet guy, i didn't have exposure necessarily to the industry side of it, the defense procurement, you know, the roslin part, no exposure, but working at the v22, as you know, a controversial airplane. c-span: explain it. >> guest: it's the v-22 ausprey, half helicopter, half propeller plane with several high profile crashes in tests, almost canceled, brought back from the brink of extension, and then had life breathed into it and ultimately succeeded now in fleet use in afghanistan and throughout the marine corp. and the special operation command, you know, the so-com, sp
leave the pentagon and go to the industry. who is he and how class are you to the way he does things? >> guest: works for the cementer of defense of information, a columnist for us, a panelist at the mill blogging conference we sponsor. he's been a guest on my podcast many times, and so, i mean, i don't quarrel with the point of view. before i took the job at military.com, i was a civil servant at the naval air systems command at the v-# -- v22 program. as a fleet guy, i didn't have...
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pentagon correspondent chris lawrence is outfront tonight. >> reporter: it is a frightening scenario. american troops and their japanese allies are drawn into a conflict with china and fighting over something more than an uninhabited islands and nothing more than rocks. and they have been practicing exercises of how to recapture this island and they say it is part of the annual training and not directed at any particular nation. china does not see it that way. on tuesday, a state editorial warned the u.s. not to quote fan the flame in the region. it suggested that the situation could spiral out of control. >> tensions are clearly rising. >> reporter: all of this over a small cluster of islands that nobody even lives on. the sen qaa cues are privately administered by the japanese, but the japanese claim they are the rightful owners. >> they have to work it out and we won't take a side on it. >> reporter: while officially neutral the u.s. defense treaty means it would have to back japan in a military confrontation over these islands. >> so i think that behind the scenes the united state
pentagon correspondent chris lawrence is outfront tonight. >> reporter: it is a frightening scenario. american troops and their japanese allies are drawn into a conflict with china and fighting over something more than an uninhabited islands and nothing more than rocks. and they have been practicing exercises of how to recapture this island and they say it is part of the annual training and not directed at any particular nation. china does not see it that way. on tuesday, a state...
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chris lawrence at the pentagon. well, chris, if you look at the world right now, you have syria, iran, north korea, who knows what else could be a threat. it's kind of tough to move to a no more than two wars strategy. >> yeah, kyra. one official said it's like going from choosing the best, most comprehensive health care plan to trying to save a buck in only getting insurance for the diseases that you think you're going to get in the future. some of the other concerns that i've heard are that it could worry and concern a lot of our allies that would still worry they get the same level of support and, perhaps, embolden some of the u.s.'s enemies to take advantage of this sort of pull back. on the other hand, the argument and the rationale you're going to get from a lot of pentagon officials is that this policy will still allow the u.s. to fight one major ground combat operation and deploy forces overseas to sort of what they call spoil the intentions of a second adversary who might want to take advantage. also, obvio
chris lawrence at the pentagon. well, chris, if you look at the world right now, you have syria, iran, north korea, who knows what else could be a threat. it's kind of tough to move to a no more than two wars strategy. >> yeah, kyra. one official said it's like going from choosing the best, most comprehensive health care plan to trying to save a buck in only getting insurance for the diseases that you think you're going to get in the future. some of the other concerns that i've heard are...
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the first thing that happened where "the new york times" leaked and published the pentagon papers was that henry kissinger demanded to know whether he was on any of the distribution lists for any of these papers so that was by way of determining whether there was any proof that he could have had a role in this. a few years ago we got the telephone tapes of mr. nixon's conversations that day and we transcribed them and actually the stran scritranscripts are pn that book in the pentagon papers and the transcripts show pretty clearly that president nixon was prepared to let the pentagon papers go by, that this was something that he could use to his political advantage because it lambasted and implicated the concerns of democrats linden johnson, hubert humphrey, john kennedy. it was fine as far as he was concerned. alexander hague calling up mr. nixon and then henry kissinger who at first was also not determined to pursue this were the ones
the first thing that happened where "the new york times" leaked and published the pentagon papers was that henry kissinger demanded to know whether he was on any of the distribution lists for any of these papers so that was by way of determining whether there was any proof that he could have had a role in this. a few years ago we got the telephone tapes of mr. nixon's conversations that day and we transcribed them and actually the stran scritranscripts are pn that book in the pentagon...
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>>guest: in the case of exxonmobil they have huge, huge numbers but the pentagon of profitability over many years, it falls in the manufacturing average of about 5 percent to 6 percent, nothing unusual. >>neil: this is a p.r. part of this. and the p.r. -- well, they are going after this guy for using, the crucified term as they should. and the oil companies are hardly slackers when it comes to making money hand over 50 to a lot of democrats and a lot of liberals, a lot of environmentalists, the epa, maybe, just as, if not more offensive. what do you say? >>guest: that's because it takes a practical mind to understand we how the industry works and how profits occur if an industry that has all kinds of capital expenses and pays all kinds of taxes to the government for which people should celebrate those profits because it goes right back into more capital for more energy. and at a time of high prices, what we need are profitable companies pouring their profits into capital investment to officer supply. income, if the government would get out of the way of some of the opportunities to inc
>>guest: in the case of exxonmobil they have huge, huge numbers but the pentagon of profitability over many years, it falls in the manufacturing average of about 5 percent to 6 percent, nothing unusual. >>neil: this is a p.r. part of this. and the p.r. -- well, they are going after this guy for using, the crucified term as they should. and the oil companies are hardly slackers when it comes to making money hand over 50 to a lot of democrats and a lot of liberals, a lot of...
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would you have a spending priority for people or for weapons systems at the pentagon? >> let me start by saying a little bit -- in the future, we are not going to be judged on our might as a country. it will not be disorder as we have or how many tanks we have, how many aircraft we have. we will be judged on our ability to compete in the world economically. i spent some time with people who had survived presidents and secretaries of state on the council of foreign relations, someone i have high regard for. this is not my original idea. it is basically his. but i agree with him. i think we really need to focus strategically. >> what is strategic -- does that mean you would downsize the current military might of the united states? >> i think we need to be nimble. >> what does that mean? >> because we have to pay attention to terrorist outbreaks that come up often, we need to be nimble. we need to rely on technology. we need to be strategic in how we go about -- have now? military. it might be smaller, but the most important thing for us is to make sure we have a strong e
would you have a spending priority for people or for weapons systems at the pentagon? >> let me start by saying a little bit -- in the future, we are not going to be judged on our might as a country. it will not be disorder as we have or how many tanks we have, how many aircraft we have. we will be judged on our ability to compete in the world economically. i spent some time with people who had survived presidents and secretaries of state on the council of foreign relations, someone i...
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january 1 when those mandatory cuts kick in, cutting half a trillion dollars, for instance, out of the pentagon budget, when tax rates automatically go up for just about every single american. but the devil will be in the details. there isn't a lot of time to get a deal done. we'll continue to monitor that for you here on fox and let you know how it proceeds. jenna: more breaking news now. new reports suggest there are two people missing in the oil platform fire we told you about at the beginning of our show. this is just breaking. we have a coast guard captain on the phone. captain, what can you tell us about the fire. >> good morning. about 9:00 this morning the coast guard received a report on a platform about 20 miles south of grand isle, louisiana. the report we had 28 people were onboard. after the fire occurred commercial helicopters evacuated individuals on the platform to a nearby platform. we're still working on full accountability for the people that were there. jenna: we have heard reports of four being flown to the hospital and two being missing or as you know, when it comes up in
january 1 when those mandatory cuts kick in, cutting half a trillion dollars, for instance, out of the pentagon budget, when tax rates automatically go up for just about every single american. but the devil will be in the details. there isn't a lot of time to get a deal done. we'll continue to monitor that for you here on fox and let you know how it proceeds. jenna: more breaking news now. new reports suggest there are two people missing in the oil platform fire we told you about at the...
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pits pentagon versus the poor and house votes to spare punt pentagon from automatic budget cuts trims domestic programs instead. so why is it that elected leaders and the american people aren't seeing eye to eye when it comes to defense spending to discuss this i'm joined by the man who wrote this book michael o'brien is the author of america's failure in iraq and he's here to help me follow the money. michael you know it seems like americans all across the board can agree that cutting the pentagon is really something they want to see why is this not having i mean our congress completely bought out by defense contractors and that's probably the main reason. there's a lot of reasons but that would have to be the biggest one. you know the term the military industrial complex. we've really heard it for the first time when and why eisenhower gave his farewell address to the nation in one thousand nine hundred sixty one right before he with the white house and it was because he was afraid of the strength the power of a companies that had built weapons and supported our military during the
pits pentagon versus the poor and house votes to spare punt pentagon from automatic budget cuts trims domestic programs instead. so why is it that elected leaders and the american people aren't seeing eye to eye when it comes to defense spending to discuss this i'm joined by the man who wrote this book michael o'brien is the author of america's failure in iraq and he's here to help me follow the money. michael you know it seems like americans all across the board can agree that cutting the...
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the pentagon insists things are back on track. and uses phrase dramatically improved to describe the situation in a new report. we have a report from our bureau in bangkok. >> the u.s. department of defense has released its latest report on the on going battle with taliban in afghanistan. progress has been made, but much remains to be done. pressing issue, how to best train afghan forces to maintain security. the report released to the u.s. congress on monday. a key claim is that 76% of the country's population lives in areas where afghan police and troops maintain the leading role in security. it also states that attacks by the taliban rose by 1% for the period of april to september, known as the afghan fighting season. the pentagon says increased violence centered on rural areas and security in cities dramatically improved during the same period. since the start of the year, attacks fell 22% in kabul, 62% in kandahar, and 88% in mazhar-i-sharif. compares with 211. critical concerns are also detailed in the report. international
the pentagon insists things are back on track. and uses phrase dramatically improved to describe the situation in a new report. we have a report from our bureau in bangkok. >> the u.s. department of defense has released its latest report on the on going battle with taliban in afghanistan. progress has been made, but much remains to be done. pressing issue, how to best train afghan forces to maintain security. the report released to the u.s. congress on monday. a key claim is that 76% of...
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. >> day after the pentagon, white house concedeed as well that it is not prepared for the pending cut it needs to make if congress doesn't reach deficit reduction agreement by the end of the year. >> while omd has not engaged agencies in planning, our staff is conducting the analysis that is necessary to move forward. should that be required. >> critics say the lack of preparation is unacceptable. >> president of the commanderer in chief of the country. other day his spokesman said he was leaving this to congress. this is abdocation of leadership. >> the white house says the cuts themselves were designed to be unacceptable. to force congress to reach a compromise. >> pentagon officials say the $500 billion in cuts would demand complete change in defense strategy. and hollow the force. >> one thing we can't do as government is sacrifice national security by triggering this rather absurd mechanism that was instituted to avoid absurdity. >> in addition, the defense contractor cuts could cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and push the country back to recession, which could do the same for
. >> day after the pentagon, white house concedeed as well that it is not prepared for the pending cut it needs to make if congress doesn't reach deficit reduction agreement by the end of the year. >> while omd has not engaged agencies in planning, our staff is conducting the analysis that is necessary to move forward. should that be required. >> critics say the lack of preparation is unacceptable. >> president of the commanderer in chief of the country. other day his...
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there's political will to make cuts in the pentagon. there isn't political will to cut entitlements. so the kinds of things that republicans say they want to do, including preserving the tax rates for the top 2%, are not things there's a huge amount of public support for. >> republicans clearly are ignoring the political will of the people. >> they are just picking and choosing, which is what mitt romney did. you pick and choose and you don't get above 47%. they are trying to deal with the secondary problem and not with the first one. we got into this deficit because there was an economic downturn because of the bush tax cuts. you have to deal with that. you want higher tax rates and you want actually to lower spending on military. but you have to deal with entitlements, but until you agree on the problem and the politics, you're not going to come up with a resolution. >> richard wolffe and molly ball, thank you. >>> coming up, republicans told voters the president's policies were bad for the economy. new data tells a different story. w
there's political will to make cuts in the pentagon. there isn't political will to cut entitlements. so the kinds of things that republicans say they want to do, including preserving the tax rates for the top 2%, are not things there's a huge amount of public support for. >> republicans clearly are ignoring the political will of the people. >> they are just picking and choosing, which is what mitt romney did. you pick and choose and you don't get above 47%. they are trying to deal...
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you will land the job at the pentagon. that is how our system of checks and balances breaks down. >> he was suggesting that if you want to leave capitol hill and go to the pentagon, but we hear people leave the pentagon and go to the industry. who is he? how do you come close to the things he does thing? >> he works for the center of defense. he is a columnist for us. he has been a panelist at the blogging conference and a guest of mine podcast. i do not quarrel with his point of view. before i took the job at military.com, i worked as a civil servant at the v-22 program. as a fleet the guy, i did not have any exposure to the industry's side of it, the defense procurement. i had no exposure. working in the v-22 which is controversial -- >> explain what it is? >> it is a marine airplane that is half helicopter, half propeller plane. at several crashes during test that was almost canceled and brought to the brink of extinction and then is now in fleet use throughout the marine corps. and the special operations command. they
you will land the job at the pentagon. that is how our system of checks and balances breaks down. >> he was suggesting that if you want to leave capitol hill and go to the pentagon, but we hear people leave the pentagon and go to the industry. who is he? how do you come close to the things he does thing? >> he works for the center of defense. he is a columnist for us. he has been a panelist at the blogging conference and a guest of mine podcast. i do not quarrel with his point of...
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obama made the announcement in the first news conference at the pentagon by a u.s. president. the strategy took into account the end of the war in iraq and the winding down of the one in afghanistan. pentagon leaders crafted this strategy in line with defense cuts of $450 billion over the next decade. obama says the u.s. will be able to ensure its security with a smaller ground force. >> our military will be leaner, but the world must know the united states is is going to maintain our military's superiority with armed forces that are agile, flexible, and ready for the full range of contingencies and threats. >> defense secretary leon panetta made it clear the military will no longer be large enough to conduct large-scale ground campaigns. still, he noted that american soldiers could win a conflict on the korean peninsula and counter the iranian threat in the strait of hormuz. he said the u.s. will help its allies to defend themselves through diplomacy, development, and military assistance. >>> hopes that north korea would alter its course on nuclear development under its new l
obama made the announcement in the first news conference at the pentagon by a u.s. president. the strategy took into account the end of the war in iraq and the winding down of the one in afghanistan. pentagon leaders crafted this strategy in line with defense cuts of $450 billion over the next decade. obama says the u.s. will be able to ensure its security with a smaller ground force. >> our military will be leaner, but the world must know the united states is is going to maintain our...
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[no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] >> we are waiting live at the pentagon to hear from defense secretary leon panetta and the south korean defence minister kim kwan-jin in. they will have a news conference following their annual security talks. elsewhere on the cspan networks, on c-span 2, we are bringing you a discussion of the u.s. chamber of commerce of legal reforms across the country, a number of speakers are scheduled including former new york city mayor rudy guiliani and consumer products safety commission nancy n orris and that is getting underway fairly soon on c-span 2. on c-span 3, people supporting candidates are having a debate and brought you eight discussion on domestic and foreign policy and a couple of those have been live at c-span.org. this one will be at johns school of advanced international studies. representatives of the campaign will talk about domestic and foreign policy issues falling tuesday night's foreign policy debate. a representative from president obama and met romney are among the participants live deceiving at 6:00 p.m. eastern on cspan 3. [no
[no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] >> we are waiting live at the pentagon to hear from defense secretary leon panetta and the south korean defence minister kim kwan-jin in. they will have a news conference following their annual security talks. elsewhere on the cspan networks, on c-span 2, we are bringing you a discussion of the u.s. chamber of commerce of legal reforms across the country, a number of speakers are scheduled including former new york city mayor rudy guiliani and...
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recasting america's global military strategy or just more of the same broad obama's new vision for the pentagon is aimed at saving money while making the u.s. military more lean and mean critics charge this new mission is no different from the one obama inherited from the bush era the u.s. will remain the world's policeman. and. to cross-talk washington's new military strategy i'm joined by matthew rothschild in madison he is the editor of the progressive magazine in los angeles we have christian whiten he is a principal with d.c. international advisory and a former state department senior adviser and in london we crossed to frank jackson he is vice president of uniting for peace all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want but first let's see what mr obama has in mind for the pentagon. in light of budgetary mandates passed by congress last year requiring reduction in overall defense spending president barack obama has announced a new strategic initiative for the american military in contrast to his predecessors the president's plans no longer call f
recasting america's global military strategy or just more of the same broad obama's new vision for the pentagon is aimed at saving money while making the u.s. military more lean and mean critics charge this new mission is no different from the one obama inherited from the bush era the u.s. will remain the world's policeman. and. to cross-talk washington's new military strategy i'm joined by matthew rothschild in madison he is the editor of the progressive magazine in los angeles we have...
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pentagon said nato forces shot one of the two assailant, apparently soldiers. the u.s. expressing its relief that egypt lifted a travel ban against seven democracy workers. the decision was made by egypt's judicial system, but she cautions the case is not over. she says no decision has been made on $1.5 billion aid that the u.s. wanted to provide to egypt. money was by some put in jeopardy by egypt's decision to charge americans with fomenting unrest. back in one minute with more "washington today. ing lacked capacity to be brilliant but detached which i think is a very important quality. could not do that. and so as a result of this, george himself made it difficult to work with himself. >> john lewis discussing his book "george f. ken dean." we'll talk about his book with susan glacier. this friday at 7:00 p.m. eastern on after words on c-span radio. >>> david gregory, george stephanopoulos. >> hear talk shows replayed every friday afternoon. nbc's "meet the press", abc's this week. cnn state of the union and cbs's "face the nation." the top issues, key political figu
pentagon said nato forces shot one of the two assailant, apparently soldiers. the u.s. expressing its relief that egypt lifted a travel ban against seven democracy workers. the decision was made by egypt's judicial system, but she cautions the case is not over. she says no decision has been made on $1.5 billion aid that the u.s. wanted to provide to egypt. money was by some put in jeopardy by egypt's decision to charge americans with fomenting unrest. back in one minute with more...
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according to the pentagon's base structure report today these amount to seven hundred sixteen in thirty eight countries more than two hundred fifty thousand soldiers stationed on these bases in addition to this the u.s. has a military presence in one hundred ten countries around the world. a year after his election barack obama approved the new administration's first military budget this amounts to six hundred eighty billion dollars thirty billion more than bush's last defense budget and almost equalling the seven hundred eighty seven billion dollars set aside by the new administration for the economic crisis stimulus package why despite the crisis does the military budget keep growing a crises and military expansion related in some way. when we have different presidents patience or sometimes bands that come or even move we have talent night if we have people that want to show off their talent we have a stage. we've done all sorts of things here from a halloween party there's christmas parties there's other events that happened here at the center as well you know they had they have soft
according to the pentagon's base structure report today these amount to seven hundred sixteen in thirty eight countries more than two hundred fifty thousand soldiers stationed on these bases in addition to this the u.s. has a military presence in one hundred ten countries around the world. a year after his election barack obama approved the new administration's first military budget this amounts to six hundred eighty billion dollars thirty billion more than bush's last defense budget and almost...
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. >> it is my pleasure to welcome minister barak to the pentagon. i would like to begin by taking a moment to pay tribute. he has made an announcement that he intends to retire from political life in israel. our friendship stretches back a number of decades to i think the beginning -- my time as member of congress and as a member of the clinton administration. we also worked closely when i was director of the cia and had a number of meetings in that capacity and certainly now as secretary defense. since i became secretary of defense, we have been in regular communication and have built a strong working relationship. i could not have more respect for he is brilliant, strategic mind. he has one of the best in the business. it stems from a warrior heart and his warrior experience. he has had a lifelong and to protecting the state of israel -- lifelong commitment to protecting the state of israel. a few people have such far- reaching and positive impacts on israeli security and prosperity. i have to say on that u.s.- isreali relationship, it is the stro
. >> it is my pleasure to welcome minister barak to the pentagon. i would like to begin by taking a moment to pay tribute. he has made an announcement that he intends to retire from political life in israel. our friendship stretches back a number of decades to i think the beginning -- my time as member of congress and as a member of the clinton administration. we also worked closely when i was director of the cia and had a number of meetings in that capacity and certainly now as secretary...